A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object.
As completely as possible.
1 The boat needed just that impetus to free her from the chocks .
2 Their only other boat was a spare one, lashed amidships on chocks .
3 Those that knocked the chocks out from under that heap of logs?
4 Lollee brought out wheel chocks and put them under the fat tires.
5 The schooner's spare boat was in chocks between the foremast and the main.
6 He then sounded, making the line whiz as it passed through the chocks .
7 Use your jams as chocks to exploit small fluctuations in width.
8 The bilge chocks is both pulled off; look you, they're gone away astern.
9 When there are no housing - chocks the ordinary chocking-quoins may be used as such.
10 She was quite empty and lay high and dry on three low chocks .
11 He kicked down the anchor chocks and moved around to study the rack.
12 We had maintenance guys throwing chocks under the wheel but it kept on moving.
13 Always use long runners on cams and chocks that aren't placed in a direct line.
14 Think of it as the chocks under a wheel of an airplane, Dr Golledge says.
15 If only God would have watched out for me all the way to the chocks .
16 Overboard with everything now, for beaching, capstan, chocks and all-theswell will wash them in.
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